Mama's Pound Cake

• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together.
3. Add sugar, a little at a time.
4. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
5. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour.
6. Mix in vanilla.
7. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

butter, vegetable shortening, sugar, eggs, allpurpose flour, salt, baking powder, milk, vanilla

Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/mamas-pound-cake-recipe.html (may not work)